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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Speaking in Lausanne on Wednesday and Rome Friday if you’re in the neighborhood.

La Persecuzione degli antifa….9/10/11 Garbatella, Rome

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whoa the protests in Madrid have been so strong that they managed to get the 87-year-old Maricarmen back in her home after being evicted!

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Encampments planned all across the Spanish state as the campaign against the capitalist housing crisis grows!

This is a list in Spanish of locations across the country where encampments are planned.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Welp my sundays just opened up

Huge blow for giants: Giants qb Dart out for extended period, possibly rest of season

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Alexander Berkman on popular perspectives on violence in The ABC of Anarchist Communism (1929). @akpress.org

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wrote a short weird little book about far-right death threats against me + my fam, fleeing our home, Trumpism, + my experience as a Jew amidst the resurgence of fascism + genocide in Gaza Coming January 2027 from @melvillehouse.bsky.social mhpbooks.com/books/unpunc... #NoPasarán #FreePalestine

“Unpunctuated Death threats: Notes from a fascist present. Author of Antifa Mark Bray.” Text on a black and white image of the author from the chin down.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

90 years ago today began the Spanish Revolution where workers captured the fields and factories—forging a model of workers control that has inspired revolutionaries around the world for generations. 🏴❤️🖤

Image of anarchist and other revolutionary workers holding flags and rifles atop an armored car.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Oooh look what came in the mail! Captivating read from @batallonbakunin.bsky.social @pmpress.bsky.social w/ a forward by yours truly 🏴🏴🏴

Book cover featuring a burning Italian police vehicle. Title: From Riot to Insurrection by Tomás Rathaus

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Such an impressive encampment here in València with music, art, kids activities etc

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

At the encampment of the teachers’ strike in València.

Tent with a banner that says “En esta casa defensem l’escola pública”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Visiting the memorial to Walter Benjamin in Portbou.

Photo of myself in front of a street sign that says “Passatge Walter Benjamin”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Marvelous news that both Saif and Thiago are free! #FreePalestine

Image of Thiago with text “Thiago is Free!”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Speaking tour of Catalunya coming up: May 20-Sant Cugat de Vallès May 21-Manresa May 22-Vic May 23-Sant Feliu de Ll. (11h) w/ @miquelramos.bsky.social May 23-Barcelona (16h) w/ @albasidera.bsky.social and @helenacastella.bsky.social

Poster for talk:

21/05 18:30 El Casino

De Washington a Catalunya: La Internacional reaccionaria

Poster:

23 de Maig, CC Les Tovalloles, 11h amb Miquel Ramos

Poster:

20 de maig 18h Sala Clavé de la Unió Centre Cultural

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Some badass I met yesterday in Madrid was sporting this gem. Shoulda asked where they got it…

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Someone should get on translating this new book, "Antifascismo Illegale" into English. I'm honored that it includes an interview with me. #NoPasarán #SiamoTuttiAntifascisti

Black book cover for "Antifascismo Illegale" edited by Mattia Tombolini. It features an artistic depiction of a face behind which there are antifascists with flags and images of barbed wire and birds flying away.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Neither TRADWIVES nor GYMBROS: For an anticapitalist transfeminism against the far right” ✊ International Women’s Day Madrid #8M

Banner at a march which says “Ni tradwives ni gymbros: por un transfeminismo anticapitalista contra la extrema derecha”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Fue un placer (dado las circunstancias) hablar con Ana Pastor anoche sobre Trump y fascismo en los EEUU: www.lasexta.com/programas/el...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is the way forward. From a comrade in Minneapolis: General Strike against ICE Jan. 23. #AbolishICE

Green background with a bird spreading its wings.

Text says: General Strike January 23. March downtown Mpls. Fascists not welcome. Protect each other. ICE OUT. No work. No school. No shopping.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Friday in Barcelona @ara.cat enfoquem.ara.cat

Photo of Mark Bray for event Friday at 18:40 at the CCCB in Barcelona.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

4b) And why did the transnational concept of ‘The Left’ emerge according to Fronczak? Fascism. In other words, the need to unite against fascism gave birth to an expansive notion of antifascism beyond Italy and to the very idea of ‘The Left’ itself.

Page of text. “So what had changed? …The main reason was fascism.”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

4a) But the biggest contribution from Everything is Possible is: the argument that ‘The Left’ as we think of it today—as an amorphous, transnational collectivity—only dates from the mid 1930s. Prior to that, the term was mainly used for particular groups of politicians in a few countries.

A page of text. The main takeaway from this page is the quote “For the mid-Depression Years—those years leading up to and culminating in the Spanish Civil War—were when the basic idea of the left as some great aggregate of people who find common cause with each other the world over finally took form.”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

4) Everything is Possible by Joseph Fronczak is one my favorite histories of antifascism. He shows how fascism and antifascism were political categories largely confined to Italy and the Italian diaspora prior to the mid 1930s.

Book cover showing a fist and the title Everything is Possible: Antifascism and the Left in the Age of Fascism by Joseph Fronczak.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Have had a great few days with the indomitable @candundar.bsky.social filming an episode of Guardians of Truth for DW.

Photo of me with Can Dündar in front of an open sky

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Magnificent banner made by a Madrid socialist group for event surrounding the 50th anniversary of the death of Franco.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My Antifa book is on the New York Times Bestseller list 8 years after publication. Thank you to everyone who has supported me (and my family) in so many ways (including buying books). #NoPasarán

147 weeks on the list

9 ON TYRANNY
by Timothy SnyderCrown
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.

10 New this week

ANTIFA
by Mark Bray Melville House
The historian and scholar chronicles the anti-fascism movement from its opposition to Hitler and Mussolini to more recent events.

11 11 weeks on the list

FRAMED
by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey Vintage
Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The ‘antifa’ boogeyman From: www.nj.com/opinion/2025...

Image of a monster next to someone dressed as a stereotypical anarchist with a circle a on their sweatshirt.

Caption:
“Hi. I’m the Boogeyman. A mythical creature used to frighten children into doing what they’re told. This is my buddy Antifa. He does the same thing but for Republican Adults.”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

3b) That tension in breaking the law in the name of the (new or real) law is central to fascism and evident in the popular Blue Lives Matter Punisher imagery. Also evident in much of what Trump has to say about the subject.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

3a) Notable in the "Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals: - the desire to do politics as warfare (important given the legacy of WWI) - the argument that what was needed at the start of fascism was a 'revolutionary' violation of the (perverted) law to restore 'order', i. e. the "new law."

Mussolini and other fascists marching in black shirts

It was the very faith that had ripened in the trenches and in intense reflection on the sacrifice accomplished in the course of battle, a sacrifice for the only worthy goal: the vigor and greatness of the fatherland. It was an energetic, violent faith, unwilling to respect anything opposed to the fatherland's vigor and greatness. This is how squadrism arose. Determined youths, armed, organized in military fashion, and dressed in black shirts, placed themselves outside the law in order to institute a new law. They fought the state in order to found a new state.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

3) Next, some primary sources like "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925) by the "philosopher of fascism," Giovanni Gentile. Given fascism's renunciation of rational consistency, there is arguably something paradoxical in the notion of a "fascist intellectual." Anyway...

"Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" (1925)

On 29-30 March 1925 the first Conference on Fascist Culture was held in Bologna under the leadership of Giovanni Gentile. Over four hundred profascist intellectuals lent their names to the event, though actual attendance was more modest. Its aim was to rally Italian intellectuals behind the regime in an effort to enhance the image of the newly declared dictatorship both at home and abroad. One of the congress's immediate results was the following manifesto, largely drafted by Gentile...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency. Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called
their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at
their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

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